700% increase in private schools in 25 years: One in five schools is private
The proposal accepted in the General Assembly of the Parliament to levy a 20% SCT (ÖTV - Special Consumption Tax) on diamonds and gems has been removed from the bill. Those who collect SCT on cooking gas cylinders failed to do the same for diamonds. If they simply passed a general law stating that "the wealthy and the bosses" are exempt from tax, they wouldn't have to tire themselves out with every new regulation. The sensitivity shown towards diamonds is shown many times over to private school owners. The preference of the government and the AKP-MHP alliance (the ruling People's Alliance in Turkey) remains unchanged: always siding with the boss and the powerful, never with the public, the labourer, or the poor.
Private school bosses have been given whatever they asked for over the years. In the last 25 years, the number of private schools has increased by 700%. While there were